Grevy’s zebra Equus grevyi is the rarest of our Northern Specials. Identified with thin stripes and white belly and endangered with fewer wild zebras than tigers. All have their unique pattern, like our fingerprints. One of the targets we had was to get them in the same photo for comparison, which is possible in Meru. […]

Banded Mongoose Mungos mungo have a large head with small ears, a long tail and short muscular limbs. Their fur is brown in colour and they have several dark brown/black stripes on their back and down the sides of their body.

Desert warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus was until recently one of the most poorly known and neglected large non-forest mammals in Africa with almost no information available regarding behaviour or ecology. But surely a warthog is a warthog and the suggestion of a second species is just a manifestation of creative taxonomy; yet on further scrutiny it […]